Subject: Re: Re; Zonklight From: Terry Pratchett Date: 1996/08/27 Message-Id: Distribution: world X-Nntp-Posting-Host: unseen.demon.co.uk References: <841081285.24148@dejanews.com> Organization: Dis-Organized Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett In article <841081285.24148@dejanews.com>, mikeb@massmedia.com may well have written: > I saw the following article on Deja News, but could not find the >previous article, and the poster's email address seems to be invalid. >As a fan of both Jack Vance and Pratchett, I would be interested to know >what the similarity between CADWAL and THE LIGHT PHANTASTIC was. > > Thanx! > >-------------------------- >In article <6CeQEiMxonB@gps_gear.mayn.de> > guido@gps_gear.mayn.de "Guido Lenz" writes: >> Hey, >> I finally looked up the (c) dates of Jack Vance's Cadwal >> Chronicles. >> >> The first book is copyright 1988, whilst Light Phantastic is >> (c) 1986, so evidence strikes that, if any, Jack got the >> idea from Terry. >> >> Terry, do you have contact to Jack as a writer? And could >> you check with him, if he took the Zonklight idea from DW- >> light? > > I think I replied that I've read and enjoyed a lot of the early Vance but have no contact with Jack apart from meeting him once. I don't know what Zonklight is -- but suggesting that just because someone wrote something *after* me means that I couldn't have pinched the idea runs against the general ethos of the newsgroup :-) Terry Pratchett